3/9/2023 0 Comments Octave nashvilleI mean, I had my own ideas about how I thought this was going to go, but now that I’ve heard it all, I’m probably even more of a big fan than I thought I was going to be. So, I wanted to play around a little bit before I shared my thoughts. Let’s kick on a little bit overdrive and see what happens with that.Īnd then, as always, let’s see what it sounds like a little bit of fuzz. I’m just going to screw around for a little bit, and then we’ll talk about what it sounded like afterward. And while I have not plugged it in yet, I am super stoked to hear what this sounds like. I’ve got Firebird pickups in this guy, which are awesome, but it sounds a little bit brighter than your average Les Paul, just FYI. We’re doing this all on a Gibson Les Paul. I mean, C standard I have, but not with the bottom four up an octave. So, altogether we are tuned C, F, A#, D#, G, C. I’m going to go ahead and get tuned up and then we’ll go in the other room and see what the heck it sounds like. I have really no idea what this is going to sound like, but I’m excited to explore it. We’re going to have a wound fifth and sixth string to make everything work on this set. A lot of Nashville sets have just a wound low string. So, it’s a really weird and odd set of strings, but it’s the same general ethos that we use in Nashville tuning sets, just with some heavier gauges since we’re going to be tuning down. I used our tension calculator, which I always use to pick custom sets if I don’t kind of already know what I’m going to be doing. So, I went ahead and built a custom set of electric guitar strings. I really have no idea how this is going to go, but I think it’s a pretty cool concept, I think, that could lend some pretty cool tones. And then, the high E and B will be tuned down four steps from normal. But, if we take the whole set then and tune it down two whole steps or four half steps, we end up with kind of like a weird middle ground where the lower four strings are going to be tuned up halfway from where they would normally be in Nashville tuning. What I think is cool about this is that we’re taking the bottom four strings and tuning them up an octave, in theory. And that led me to today’s topic, which is, what if we take the concept of Nashville tuning, but do it in C standard. I sometimes keep a guitar setup in Nashville tuning because it’s a pretty fun thing to explore. You can find our Electric guitar strings for Nashville tuning here, and our Acoustic guitar strings for Nashville tuning here. We make standardized Nashville sets to get your guitar ready for those sweet, sweet jangles. It takes out a lot of that boomy bassiness, and it was originally used in Nashville studios for strummed parts on an acoustic guitar, so that it fit better in the mix and sat on top of everything, rather than getting into the meat of the mix, where you have your bass, and your drums, and your other guitars, and all that sort of good stuff. So, when you’re playing the guitar, you have basically the bottom four strings an octave higher, but the guitar string order of EADGBE remains the same. So, we’ve talked about Nashville tuning in the past, but if you haven’t seen that video, the gist of it is what you’re doing is keeping the same strings on the E and the B on your guitar, but you’re taking the E, A, D, & G strings from a 12 string set, or just building a custom set these days, such that they’re an octave higher than normal. And, being a guitarist in Nashville, Tennessee, the thought of Nashville tuning comes up… Not because everyone in Nashville is using Nashville tuning, but because it’s the named for the city and that’s where we are. So, as you may or may not know from the one, two, three, four times it says it on our guitar string packaging, we are in Nashville, Tennessee. Subscribe to Stringjoy on YouTube Transcription
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